Boudica
Queen of the British Iceni tribe · Models · Lived 30 to 61 · aged 31
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Something wrong?Queen of the Iceni who nearly ended Roman Britain. After her daughters were raped and she was flogged by occupiers who seized her dead husband's kingdom, she torched three cities and killed up to 80,000 before the legions crushed her revolt in AD 61.
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Albert Kretschmer - Queen Boadicea (Boudicca) of the ancient British Iceni tribe MeisterDrucke-37509) Full figure drawing cut out from bookplate in Trachten der Voelker 1864 Costumes of all Nations. No known copyright
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Boudicca and Prasutagus (reenactors portraying)
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Romans, you are damned. You have wakened the terrible anger of our gods and ancestors, and they will show you no mercy. We will crush your bones into the land you have desecrated.
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About this person
Boudica ruled the Iceni alongside her husband Prasutagus, a Roman ally who tried to leave his kingdom jointly to his two daughters and the emperor. When he died, Rome ignored the will, annexed the territory, and confiscated his property. Tacitus records that Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped; Cassius Dio adds that imperial gifts were seized and the philosopher Seneca called in loans he'd forced on unwilling Britons. In 60 or 61, she led the Iceni and allied tribes in revolt, destroying Camulodunum, defeating part of the Ninth Legion, and burning Londinium and Verulamium to the ground. Governor Suetonius Paulinus regrouped his forces and, though vastly outnumbered, routed her army somewhere in the Midlands. Boudica died shortly after - by her own hand or from illness - and Nero briefly considered abandoning Britain altogether before Suetonius's victory secured the province. Her name, from the Brythonic for "victorious woman," returned to English consciousness in the Renaissance and became a Victorian rallying cry.
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